Example sentences of "[adv] for [art] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following on from this there should be no difficulty in categorising transactions where gift tokens or coupons are exchanged wholly for a product as transactions under the SGSA 1982 ( compare Davies v Customs and Excise Commissioners [ 1975 ] 1 WLR 204 ) . |
| 2 | There is thus now an excess of supply over demand which augurs badly for the UK as its North Sea oil is relatively expensive to produce and this has put certain marginal oil fields out of production . |
| 3 | But apparently he 's all right for the weekend because Saturday is a courting-free day ! ’ |
| 4 | At the end of November , ten or eleven boys climbed the big walnut tree in the middle of the village , swinging about among its branches , and women and children scrabbled laughingly for the nuts as they fell . |
| 5 | In April 1990 an all-out battle between Bègles and Montferrand raged on for a while before the referee could stop the slaughter . |
| 6 | Pétain , he recommended , should now be put in command not only of the Left Bank , but of the Right Bank as well ; the ‘ fatigued ’ General Herr should be kept on for a while as Pétain 's adviser , then quietly ‘ limogé ’ . |
| 7 | He put the stub of the fat cigar he had been smoking under the cold tap , turned the water on for a second while the brown stump sizzled and died , then threw the sodden remnant in the bin . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's getting on for an hour since we left Cartier . ’ |
| 9 | The Prime Minister gave his go-ahead at a meeting with the Chancellor , Treasury Chief Secretary Michael Portillo , Social Security Secretary Peter Lilley and Employment Minister Michael Forsyth , after being told that doctors , especially in inner city areas , sign people on for the benefit because it pays more than dole money . |
| 10 | The Prime Minister gave his go-ahead at a meeting with the Chancellor , Treasury Chief Secretary Michael Portillo , Social Security Secretary Peter Lilley and Employment Minister Michael Forsyth , after being told that doctors , especially in inner city areas , sign people on for the benefit because it pays more than dole money . |
| 11 | In a sense the music existed rather for the participants than the hearers ; thus they wished only to be helped , or nudged , not commanded , when in danger of error . |
| 12 | John Deverall ( 1979 ) , in a fascinating but as yet unpublished dissertation on the ‘ Public Medium/Private Process ’ dichotomy , draws our attention to authors such as Richard Sennett ( 1974 ) and Iris Murdoch ( 1970 ) , the former deploring the cult of the individual in modern society and the latter arguing fiercely for the arts as ‘ unselfing ’ . |
| 13 | answered and deep enough for a boat if we had one . |
| 14 | As promised , one of the project workers gave me an early shake and I had time enough for a coffee before I needed to set off to meet Jenny . |
| 15 | Life was fraught enough for the Stevenses as it was , with the constant care of Jennifer , without her adding to their problems , and besides , she had come to value her privacy and her independence . |
| 16 | It follows therefore that it is enough for the prosecution if they have proved in these cases the assumption by the [ defendants ] of any of the rights of the owner of the goods in question , that is to say , the supermarket concerned , it being common ground in these cases that the other three of the four elements mentioned in Viscount Dilhorne 's speech in Reg. v. Lawrence had been fully established . |
| 17 | ‘ Better for a horse than for a man , ’ said Mrs Yaxlee with relish . |
| 18 | better for the workforce than bromide in their |
| 19 | I ask only for a heart as constant |
| 20 | but only for a second as he sets off |
| 21 | I hesitated only for a moment as I approached the shop , then walked straight in . |
| 22 | I should like to intervene only for a moment because I have an important constituency interest in that Gatwick , a major inter-national airport , is within my constituency . |
| 23 | That 's only for the index if you want to get one out |
| 24 | Chuck watched Jacques Devraux enviously for a moment as he moved briskly about the camp , giving orders to the Moi . |
| 25 | People flocked to the zoo less for the fauna than for the door-prize after the daily drawing of a cardboard bicho . |
| 26 | Because its results were not up to expectations Rentokil is paying $2m less for the business than planned . |
| 27 | He offered Jean-Claude less for the vase than Jean-Claude believed it must be worth . |
| 28 | Diane locked herself in her bedroom and would n't come down for a day because she was afraid of her father 's anger . |
| 29 | When she went into the rest room she sat down for a minute while waiting for Peggy to come out of the lavatory . |
| 30 | ‘ Come and sit down for a minute while the lasagne finishes cooking . ’ |